May 2010

Tweet0 Share2 Share0 +10 Pin0TOTAL SHARES 2 If you’ve read my writings for any amount of time, you know I love the rockstar metaphor as it applies to how companies can have fans as opposed to customers. And I’m a big fan of how @amandapalmer connects with her fans and leverages those connections to grow […]

Tweet6 Share11 Share4 +10 Pin0TOTAL SHARES 21As I blogged about on Tuesday, last Monday I spent a lot of time on Twitter, in an effort to see if my increased activity there, would boost traffic and engagement here. I was very encouraged by the results I saw, so I decided to extend the experiment to […]

Tweet6 Share6 Share1 +10 Pin0TOTAL SHARES 13 If you think about it, a lot of the ‘best practices’ for using social media can seem completely counterintuitive to companies that are new to these tools. Take linking, for example. On the surface, the process sounds absurd: I’m spending time every day as a social media consultant […]

Tweet0 Share2 Share0 +10 Pin0TOTAL SHARES 2A fascinating series of conversations (and a couple of arguments) sprung up on Twitter last nite about managing your followers. Some people, like my good friend Beth Harte are considering ‘resetting’ their Twitter account. Beth’s rationale is that she wants to get back to following fewer people, and having […]

Tweet29 Share36 Share1 +15 Pin0TOTAL SHARES 71Did you know there are over 2 dozen videos on YouTube of Lady Gaga crying during one of her concerts? Most involve her breaking down in response to something her fans have done, but then there’s this video. In that video, a teenager is in line to get Gaga’s […]

Tweet7 Share7 Share1 +11 Pin0TOTAL SHARES 16As many of you do, I use Twitter as a tool to build awareness for my blog, and to increase traffic. In fact the site is the top referring site for this blog, and has been since Day One. Usually, I spent anywhere from 30 mins to a couple […]

Tweet10 Share11 Share1 +10 Pin0TOTAL SHARES 22Last week I hit a milestone on Twitter, reaching 20,000 followers. Plenty of people, myself included, have said that your follower number isn’t as important as it’s made out to be. I think the term ‘follower’ implies that 20,000 people are actively attempting to engage with me. In reality, […]

Tweet37 Share52 Share20 +11 Pin0TOTAL SHARES 110 I wrote a bit about this in the last post at The Viral Garden but the first social media event I ever spoke at was SXSW in 2008. Think about that for a moment; Here I am, an introvert that hasn’t spoken in a public setting for 5 […]

Tweet0 Share2 Share0 +10 Pin0TOTAL SHARES 2When I travel I am obsessive about having all my paperwork and directions in place beforehand. I even print out two copies of my boarding passes. So last fall when I was traveling to Chicago to speak at the Marketing Profs Digital Marketing Mixer, I knew exactly what to […]

Tweet0 Share13 Share0 +10 Pin0TOTAL SHARES 13One of the most popular reasons for using a blog as a professional or business tool, is to establish you or your company’s expertise. A blog is perfectly suited as a place to create a knowledge base of content that lets others know just how smart and qualified you […]

Tweet1 Share3 Share0 +10 Pin0TOTAL SHARES 4We’ve all seen the studies and have heard the hype. Social media is taking over the world and every company will have to have a full-blown social media strategy by 2011 (originally it was 2008, then 2009, then 2010…), or they will be obsolete and left behind. Give me […]